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One of the breakout stars to emerge from Liverpool SoundCity is new bar and live music venue The Shipping Forecast.
The joint looks set to become the jewel of Liverpool’s live music scene, with stylish olde-worlde charm, comfortable furnishings, seafaring paraphrenalia and a selection of house ales to make Jack Sparrow blush.
We recommend you hungry hearts try the menu with lamb burgers in buns so fresh you expect to have to kill the meat, proper pies including Buttered Balti Chicken and roasts to shame your mother.
The 850 capacity alehouse on Slater Street, with a hidden side entrance to keep the Slater Street smackheads at bay, is a secret oasis offering convivial drinking space and plenty of hidey holes for lovers.
The Shipping Forecast will host a wide and irregular array of live music, DJs, and day time record fairs, vintage clothing swaps and pub quizzes.
The independent music venue also boasts intimate 150 capacity room in the basement which Brooklyn duo Sleigh Bells and South Central christened. The Maccabees and Stopmakingme have also presided over the decks upstairs.
Expectations are rightfully lofty as bookings will be overseen by Liverpool’s own renowned party organiser and promoter Rich McGinnis and Lewis Boardman, from legendary club night Chibuku.
Upcoming guests include songbird Eliza Doolittle, Disco dons Horse Meat Disco, Joy Orbison and world music supremo Giles Peterson with a mammoth five hour set.
Last night played host to the first Clever Club, the weekly Thursday basement party featuring rising talent Dominque Young Unique and hosted by promoter/DJ Kieran Crosby.
The Shipping Forecast promises to be a new exciting haunt and number one port of call for Liverpool’s burgeoning arts and live music circuit. Good times ahoy.